Getting data from complicated variable

[theunreal]

Hello.
I have complicated variable I Got from API by JSON, and I need to extract the “street”.
In this case - “*** I NEED TO GET THIS VALUE ***”
I have variable $data, that stores the following:

string(444) "{
"category":"Concert venue","category_list":[{
"id":"191478144212980","name":"Night Club"}
,{"id":"215343825145859","name":"Social Club"}]
,"location":{
"street":"*** I NEED TO GET THIS VALUE ***",
"city":"some city`",
"state":"",
"country":"some country","zip":"84101","latitude":31.221888491009,"longitude":34.802303128921},"name":"some name","id":"355358751735"}"

I have bolded the value I need to get. I tried for few hours and couldn’t get how to do this.
Is it even possible?

[RavenVelvet]

Try this:

$data = json_decode($data, true);
$street = $data['street'];

Manual page for json_decode() function might help a bit too.

[fretburner]

@RavenVelvet

Try this:

$data = json_decode($data, true);
$street = $data[‘street’];

The street field is nested inside the location object, so you’d need to do:

$street = $data['location']['street'];

[RavenVelvet]

Good spot @fretburner

[theunreal]

@fretburner

$street = $data[‘location’][‘street’];

Warning: Illegal string offset ‘location’ in …
Warning: Illegal string offset ‘street’ in …

[RavenVelvet]

Did you inspect the $data variable after passing it through the json_decode() function?

var_dump($data);

When I do it, I get this result

array(5) {
  ["category"]=>
  string(13) "Concert venue"
  ["category_list"]=>
  array(2) {
    [0]=>
    array(2) {
      ["id"]=>
      string(15) "191478144212980"
      ["name"]=>
      string(10) "Night Club"
    }
    [1]=>
    array(2) {
      ["id"]=>
      string(15) "215343825145859"
      ["name"]=>
      string(11) "Social Club"
    }
  }
  ["location"]=>
  array(7) {
    ["street"]=>
    string(32) "*** I NEED TO GET THIS VALUE ***"
    ["city"]=>
    string(10) "some city`"
    ["state"]=>
    string(0) ""
    ["country"]=>
    string(12) "some country"
    ["zip"]=>
    string(5) "84101"
    ["latitude"]=>
    float(31.221888491009)
    ["longitude"]=>
    float(34.802303128921)
  }
  ["name"]=>
  string(9) "some name"
  ["id"]=>
  string(12) "355358751735"
}

You should be getting the same as this above, since it’s derived from the json that you posted originally.